lib: arm/arm64: Remove unnecessary dcache maintenance operations
On ARMv7 with multiprocessing extensions (which are mandated by the virtualization extensions [1]), and on ARMv8, translation table walks are coherent [2, 3], which means that no dcache maintenance operations are required when changing the tables. Remove the maintenance operations so that we do only the minimum required to ensure correctness. Translation table walks are coherent if the memory where the tables themselves reside have the same shareability and cacheability attributes as the translation table walks. For ARMv8, this is already the case, and it is only a matter of removing the cache operations. However, for ARMv7, translation table walks were being configured as Non-shareable (TTBCR.SH0 = 0b00) and Non-cacheable (TTBCR.{I,O}RGN0 = 0b00). Fix that by marking them as Inner Shareable, Normal memory, Inner and Outer Write-Back Write-Allocate Cacheable. Because translation table walks are now coherent on arm, replace the TLBIMVAA operation with TLBIMVAAIS in flush_tlb_page, which acts on the Inner Shareable domain instead of being private to the PE. The functions that update the translation table are called when the MMU is off, or to modify permissions, in the case of the cache test, so break-before-make is not necessary. [1] ARM DDI 0406C.d, section B1.7 [2] ARM DDI 0406C.d, section B3.3.1 [3] ARM DDI 0487E.a, section D13.2.72 [4] ARM DDI 0487E.a, section K11.5.3 Reported-by:Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by:
Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@arm.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
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